Trump Spends His 4th Of July Arguing The Meme He Got From Neo-Nazis Isn’t Anti-Semitic

While many of America’s leaders sent messages of celebration and well wishes this 4th of July to people enjoying the holiday weekend, Donald Trump spent his morning embroiled in an argument over whether the meme he lifted from a right-wing neo-Nazi website featuring the Star of David photoshopped onto a pile of money was anti-Semitic.

Having already deleted the initial tweet, which had a picture of Hillary Clinton next to a Star of David placed over a pile of money and replaced it with one that covered the Jewish symbol with a less offensive circle, the Trump campaign’s latest defense appears to be that this was not a Star of David, it was a “sheriff’s badge.”

The premise that this was merely a harmless sheriff’s badge is ludicrous for several reasons. For starters, the meme was first created for an alt-right forum filled with neo-Nazis. The image was named “HillHistory”, an allusion to “HH”, neo-Nazi terminology which stands for “Heil Hitler.”

But perhaps even more obviously, the idea that this was meant to be a sheriff’s badge makes absolutely no sense. Why would it be a sheriff’s badge? What possible reason – given the context – would the creator of this meme have for using a badge? Isn’t it more likely that a neo-Nazi meme creator probably meant the Star of David?

The Trump campaign knows this, but once again they’ve shown zero qualms with stating outright lies rather than take responsibility for their conduct.

Sadly, this may top Trump’s previously Most Offensive July 4th Tweet, just beating out 2014’s classic.